(Reuters) - The gunman who killed a soldier in Ottawa and then raced through Canada's parliament before being shot dead was a misfit and perhaps mentally ill, according to police, friends and family, while his troubled and transient past included robbery and drug offenses....
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took control of Tel Shair hill in the Kobani city on Thursday, where severe fighting between Kurdish security forces and ISIL militants continues. “We have abandoned the Tel Shair Hill,” Faris ebu Ahmad, a commandant from...
The army has shrunk by nearly half since Syria's conflict erupted in 2011 but experts say the remaining military force is now both more flexible and capable. It has transformed itself from a traditional military built on the former Soviet model into an effective...
(Reuters) - Air strikes by U.S.-led forces have killed 553 Islamist fighters and 32 civilians during a month-long campaign in Syria , a monitoring group which tracks the violence said on Thursday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the vast majority of the...
